International Apologia

 

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Use the table below to browse the archive. Click a column heading to sort the entries, or click a linked name to open the full case page.

AccusedAccusationYear of Apologia
Kevin RuddGreat Britain sending tens of thousands of children involuntarily to the colonies2009
Emperor AkihitoJapan's involvement in World War II2009
George W. BushAbuses at Abu Ghraib2004
Gerhard SchroderEvents of the Holocaust2005
Mike O'BrienVictims of thalidomide 2010
Gordon BrownFor the unfair treatment of WWII codebreaker Alan Turing for being gay2009
Richard MackeSaying the three servicemen who raped an Okinawan girl would have been better hiring a prostitute1995
Scott WaddleUSS Greenville sinking of a Japanese ship2001
Serbian Parliament1995 massacre of thousands of Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebenica2010
Kevin RuddAustralia's treatment of Aborigines2008
Ursula von der Leyen – President of the European Union CommissionFor the EU's slow response to Italy's requests for aid during the initial coronavirus outbreak.2020
Donald RumsfeldTorture and abuse perpetrated by soldiers at the Abu Ghraib detention center outside Baghdad, Iraq.2004
United States Government – 1960 U-2 Spy Plane IncidentCrash of Francis Gary Powers' U-2 surveillance plane deep in Soviet territory1960
United States Government / 2001 China Spy Plane IncidentSpy plane collision over the South China Sea and the emergency landing on Hainan Island2001
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of YorkFilmed apparently offering to sell access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew.2010
George W. Bush – African Slave TradeAfrican Slave Trade2007
Canadian Government – High Arctic Inuit RelocationInuit High Arctic Relocation2010
Chandrika Kumaratunga, Former President of Sri LankaSponsoring an anti-Tamil program that resulted in the deaths of over 1,200 Tamils2004
Kofi AnnanFailure of the United Nations to prevent or halt the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.1997